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Blink

279 points| return0 | 11 years ago |google.com | reply

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[+] riquito|11 years ago|reply
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%3Cblink%3E

I wasn't really expecting an easter egg, but was surprised to not find a single result about html. Does it strip any non alphabetic character?

[+] nevi-me|11 years ago|reply
I did a \<blink\> trying to see what DDG would do, and it keeps sending me to some blinkfitness.com website. Anyone know what action backslashes add?
[+] chrisdevereux|11 years ago|reply
I wonder if searching for "onScroll" in 10 years will trigger a similar easter egg.
[+] batmansbelt|11 years ago|reply
People will probably still be using mice for input. It won't be all swiping by 2014. The nice thing about a mouse is that it requires very little effort. It takes a lot more muscle movement to perform a swipe.
[+] m_st|11 years ago|reply
Funny. But my favorite is still "do a barrel roll": https://google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
[+] pliu|11 years ago|reply
Works on a phone too. "ok google, do a barrel roll".
[+] kevin818|11 years ago|reply
Someone should make a list of all the little tricks you can use on Google, or any other site for that matter.
[+] btown|11 years ago|reply
Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.
[+] rsynnott|11 years ago|reply
Compared to the power used by the client computers dealing with Google's increasingly heavy search pages? Pretty much nothing.
[+] smackfu|11 years ago|reply
They clearly already have a very extensible framework to give different results page formats depending on the search term.
[+] McDiesel|11 years ago|reply
It appears to be implemented in JS... so... none?
[+] squigs25|11 years ago|reply
just add an extra node to their cluster